On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 12:37:31 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3448776/My-gut-tells-fishy-going-Former-D-C-homicide-commander-weighs-conspiracy-theories-swirl-death-Scalia.html > > > 'My gut tells me there is something fishy going on': Former D.C. homicide > commander weighs in as conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Scalia > > - *William Ritchie has raised questions of how Scalia's death was > treated * > - *Questioned the actions of a U.S. Marshal and a Texas judge* > - *Judge Cinderela Guevara did not ask for an autopsy when she was > called * > - *She said Scalia died of natural causes, despite not seeing the > body * > - *Ritchie said: 'What medical proof exists of a myocardial > Infarction? Why not a cerebral hemorrhage?'* > > By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com > <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Wills+Robinson+For+Dailymail.com> > > > Published: 16 February 2016 > > A former D.C. homicide commander believes there is something 'fishy' about > the circumstances surrounding Justice Scalia's death. > > William O. Ritchie, the former head of criminal investigations for the > capital's police department, questioned the way the local authorities > handled the 79-year-old's passing at a ranch over the weekend. > > Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara announced the veteran jurist died > of natural causes, without seeing the body and without ordering an autopsy. > > Scalia's personal doctor, Brian Monahan, has revealed he had a history of > heart problems, high blood pressure and had been too weak to undergo a > recent surgery. > > A former D.C. homicide commander believes there is something 'fishy' about > the circumstances surrounding Justice Scalia's death. There are questions > over why an autopsy wasn't performed and his cause of death was determined > as 'natural causes' by a judge who hadn't seen his body > > But it didn't stop a flurry of conspiracy theories about what happened, > including a scathing account by Ritchie. > > According to the *Washington Post* > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/15/conspiracy-theories-swirl-around-the-death-of-antonin-scalia/?tid=sm_fb>, > > he wrote: 'You have a Supreme Court Justice who died, not in attendance of > a physician, > > 'You have a non-homicide trained US Marshal tell the justice of peace that > no foul play was observed. > > Did the US Marshal smell his breath for any unusual odor that might > suggest poisoning? My gut tells me there is something fishy going on in > Texas > > William Ritchie, former DC homicide detective > > 'You have a justice of the peace pronounce death while not being on the > scene and without any medical training opining that the justice died of a > heart attack. > > 'What medical proof exists of a myocardial Infarction? Why not a cerebral > hemorrhage. > > He also raised concerns about the actions of the U.S. Marshal who called > Guevara to report the judge's death. > > 'How can the Marshal say, without a thorough post mortem, that he was not > injected with an illegal substance that would simulate a heart attack,' he > added. > > 'Did the US Marshal check for petechial hemorrhage in his eyes or under > his lips that would have suggested suffocation? > > 'Did the US Marshal smell his breath for any unusual odor that might > suggest poisoning? My gut tells me there is something fishy going on in > Texas.' > > A spokesman for the Marshal service told the *Washington Post * > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/15/conspiracy-theories-swirl-around-the-death-of-antonin-scalia/?tid=sm_fb>the > > officer did not give a determination of death. > > Monahan would not comment on the circumstances surrounding his patient's > death because of confidentiality. > > The 79-year-old, who sat on the Supreme Court bench for 20 years, was > found dead at a ranch in Texas during a retreat with friends and admirers. > > The hearse carrying Justice Scalia's body arrives at El Paso Airport on > Sunday. His remains were then flown to Virginia. > > John Poindexter, who found the Justice lifeless in his room in the El > Presidente suite at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas, said Scalia looked > peaceful. > > 'We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes > were unwrinkled. He was lying very restfully,' Poindexter, the owner of the > ranch, said. > > Poindexter first went to Scalia's room at 8.30am on Saturday, but the door > was locked and his knocks went unanswered. > > He returned three hours later with a friend of Scalia's, who had come with > him from Washington DC to the ranch. > > Poindexter said Scalia was 'stone cold' and did not have a pulse. After > the owner and Scalia's friend called 911, local authorities and several US > Marshals arrived at the ranch. > > 'The judge...was in complete repose. He was very peaceful in the bed,' > Poindexter told NBC News. > > You have a justice of the peace pronounce death while not being on the > scene and without any medical training opining that the justice died of a > heart attack. What medical proof exists of a myocardial Infarction? Why not > a cerebral hemorrhage > > William Ritchie > > 'He had obviously passed away with no difficulty at all in the middle of > the night.' > > 'Among the most commonly said things yesterday was, if this had to happen, > and we're really sad that it did, but if it had to happen, it happened in > the very best of circumstances. > > 'He seemed to enjoy himself greatly.' > > Scalia arrived at the ranch, which is south of Marfa, Texas, around noon > on Friday. Poindexter said the judge had a 'jolly lunch' and then observed > as some of the guests hunted quail. > > At dinner that night Scalia was his 'usual, personal self' but seemed > tired and at about 9pm said he wanted to get some sleep after 'a long day > and a long week', Poindexter told My San Antonio. > > Scalia's personal physician and sheriff's investigators said there were so > signs of foul play and concluded he had died of natural causes. > > Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara, who pronounced Scalia dead, said > his death certificate will say the cause of death was natural and that he > died of a heart attack, she told ABC News. > > She said Scalia's doctor in Washington DC told her the Justice had been > sick last week but was at the office Wednesday and Thursday before > departing for his quail hunting trip on Friday. > > Guevara was out of town and said she planned to drive to the ranch but was > told by a US Marshal, who was with Scalia's body, that it was unnecessary > to do so. > > She asked the US Marshals if there were any signs of foul play and they > assured her 'absolutely not', according to The Washington Post. > > Guevara then talked to Scalia's personal physician in DC before she > officially pronounced him dead and declined to order an inquest. > > Under Texas law it is legal for a justice of the peace to declare someone > dead without seeing the body. > > US marshals accompanied a hearse carrying Scalia's body to the airport, > where it was then transported to a private plane that departed for Virginia > around 8pm. > FROM CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING TO AN ASSASSINATION: THE CONSPIRACY > THEORIES SWIRLING ABOUT JUSTICE SCALIA'S DEATH... FROM THE PLAUSIBLE TO THE > RIDICULOUS > > 1. Someone at the ranch could have smothered Scalia with a pillow, > according to the *Dallas Observer* > > <http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/3-ways-scalia-could-have-been-killed-8031773> > . > 2. The newspaper also said he could have been poisoned. > 3. There is a chance it could have happened through carbon monoxide > fumes. > 4. The Abreau Report website stated his death was down to the Bush > family in one of the more ridiculous claims. The blogger says they > silenced > him because he was going to 'confess to involvement by the Bush family in > the attacks of September the 11th'. > 5. Readers of Fox News host Sean Hannity's blog say former Vice > President Dick Cheney was behind it. > 6. Conservative writer Jack Cashill predicted that Scalia would die in > his novel 2006: The Chautauqua Rising, in which the justice dies from > carbon monoxide poisoning but nobody believes it. > 7. An assassin killed Scalia on orders from Bill and Hillary Clinton, > according to *Saboteur365* > > <https://saboteur365.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/first-thoughts-on-the-probable-murder-of-justice-scalia/> > . > 8. 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